Your videos make me wish our local towns hired contractors to plow. I know a couple guys in the north east up in Boston that are just owner operators. I wouldn’t mind plowing the roads and with a 6 wheeler. How every our towns only hire contractors to move large amounts of snow like for the big lake effect snow storms they’ll hire loaders and dump trucks to scoop and move the snow but as far as big operations of contractors plowing like you guys do it’s not existent.
I work in public works and although the town I work for still hires some contractors, we’re trying to move away from it because it’s a lot less efficient to hire contractors than it is to have guys in public works. Were cheaper than contractors, and we have more resources than most small contractors
@offended9081 i would argue that with the fact that municipalities have a lot of long term liability. Such as insurance/healthcare, workers comp, retirement, etc. There's also a lot of waste in the municipal world. As far as small contractors go, you may be right, but in the snow removal world a small contractor would more than likely not even be qualified to bid on it. We are not hired as a sub, we are hired as the villages highway department through a public bid with a contract.
@ I feel like areas that don’t get a ton of snow use outside contractors. We are in prime lake effect snow country here and I am about 99 percent that like I said the actual plowing portion isn’t contracted out to anyone. The county and state and towns are pretty well outfitted for the most part. I could be wrong but I feel like I see road snow removal out for contract in areas that get smaller storm and such because it makes more sense in that aspect and cheaper to have contractors due it but in the case where we get a ton of snow it makes more sense for them to do it In house. They have all kind of massive snow removal equipment for the lake effect storms here. They have really stepped it up the past couple years with equipment since the blizzard of 2022 that killed if i remember 30 or 40 people. Ever since then the amount and size of equipment the state and city have gotten here in buffalo area is pretty impressive. I live down south of Buffalo and the towns down here also still use big old Oshkosh’s.
@snowblowerman5115 i can only speak on our area but the villages we plow do not have the infrastructure/man power to do it themselves. The one village where our main shop has no property besides their village hall which is very small. It's village hall, a parking lot, and a 2 car garage. They could not do it themselves even if they wanted to
@@StollNCrew Gotcha see that makes sense. Around here we our towns have massive shops. I geuss every where does it different depending on area and infrastructure.
@MattiusThomas i kinda got born into it lol but my best advice would be to find a contractor that does it. Start small and learn as you go. Or you can buy a pickup truck and start with driveways etc. Roadways are a completely different animal so you definitely don't want to jump right into that
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Your videos make me wish our local towns hired contractors to plow. I know a couple guys in the north east up in Boston that are just owner operators. I wouldn’t mind plowing the roads and with a 6 wheeler. How every our towns only hire contractors to move large amounts of snow like for the big lake effect snow storms they’ll hire loaders and dump trucks to scoop and move the snow but as far as big operations of contractors plowing like you guys do it’s not existent.
I work in public works and although the town I work for still hires some contractors, we’re trying to move away from it because it’s a lot less efficient to hire contractors than it is to have guys in public works. Were cheaper than contractors, and we have more resources than most small contractors
@offended9081 i would argue that with the fact that municipalities have a lot of long term liability. Such as insurance/healthcare, workers comp, retirement, etc. There's also a lot of waste in the municipal world. As far as small contractors go, you may be right, but in the snow removal world a small contractor would more than likely not even be qualified to bid on it. We are not hired as a sub, we are hired as the villages highway department through a public bid with a contract.
@ I feel like areas that don’t get a ton of snow use outside contractors. We are in prime lake effect snow country here and I am about 99 percent that like I said the actual plowing portion isn’t contracted out to anyone. The county and state and towns are pretty well outfitted for the most part. I could be wrong but I feel like I see road snow removal out for contract in areas that get smaller storm and such because it makes more sense in that aspect and cheaper to have contractors due it but in the case where we get a ton of snow it makes more sense for them to do it In house. They have all kind of massive snow removal equipment for the lake effect storms here. They have really stepped it up the past couple years with equipment since the blizzard of 2022 that killed if i remember 30 or 40 people. Ever since then the amount and size of equipment the state and city have gotten here in buffalo area is pretty impressive. I live down south of Buffalo and the towns down here also still use big old Oshkosh’s.
@snowblowerman5115 i can only speak on our area but the villages we plow do not have the infrastructure/man power to do it themselves. The one village where our main shop has no property besides their village hall which is very small. It's village hall, a parking lot, and a 2 car garage. They could not do it themselves even if they wanted to
@@StollNCrew Gotcha see that makes sense. Around here we our towns have massive shops. I geuss every where does it different depending on area and infrastructure.
@stoll-n-crew your killing me brandon when’s the new pickup video coming out and Merry Christmas bro
@23431 Merry Christmas! I may have a Christmas present posted for you tomorrow 👀
How can you become a snowplower?
@MattiusThomas i kinda got born into it lol but my best advice would be to find a contractor that does it. Start small and learn as you go. Or you can buy a pickup truck and start with driveways etc. Roadways are a completely different animal so you definitely don't want to jump right into that
Where’s the video on your new pickup?
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